A Third of U.S. Workers Suffer Chronic Stress

3/4/2013 12:29PM

A new survey from the American Psychological Association reveals troubling findings about stress in the American workplace. WSJ's Lauren Weber and the American Psychological Association's David Ballard join Lunch Break to discuss. Photo: AP.

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... I ... the fact that it wants Peckham Wendy downs one ... one third of American workers suffer from chronic stress according ... to a new survey from the American psychological Association is particularly bad for women join me ... right now to talk about this WSJ's Lauren Weber and David ... Fowler he is with the American psychological Association which is about some of these numbers thank so much to both of you for being here like ... oh what star with you because ... you know when we controlled our these numbers in a bid ... to set the stage is why this chronic stress is here we swam no inherently can feel it ... up and lay out the factors for stroke and well in the survey which they will talk about more ... common to this on factors that people cite our that they're not thinking enough they don't have enough opportunities to advance ... their workloads are too heavy and ... I think it's really kind of the backdrop of this the volume of four has increased for most people in the velocity of forecast an increase in case ... the fact that we are carrying smartphones which I carry emails and I it's cutting into our time with our families ... all of these factors come in and add to the sense that you're never quite high enough or we can expect your jogging Endeavour on top of it and what companies ever did during the weekend and down downturn waltz positions ... in other non sincerely killing them so they're still has work to be done but they're being very cautious about his positions or bets that adds to the Premier IP pledging more classy and David let's get some of the headlines not numbers here because you describe this is very interesting terminology new Civic ... mean organizations have management practices straight at ... the industrial ... revolution I you know tells what you mean by that ... and let's get some of the top headline numbers out of their critically when it comes to women the survey ... the bank yet I think of the work is change we can get when you work in our something that we do rather than something that we we go to everyday ... while King of the change significantly organizations are still functioning at the same way they have for many decades ... training managers to effectively work with the remote work force are not in work for what they were the measures in place ... and are putting more demands on fewer people that you will for protection and employees are suffering approval ... and so the big numbers they've been struck me out of this survey we did said one third of people feel like they're suffering from chronic stress ... winning in particular seemed to be susceptible of this one and Number showing there ... I'm sure in terms of men and women while there are huge ... we are talking about different route that are having a negative problem on top of already that number ... feel like a level playing field for women ... I think they had a few less value than the forty eight percent of women to feel valued versus fifty four percent of men western half of them would win and they they get adequate monetary compensation for what they do compared to forty eight percent of them policemen ... and the awful thing they don't have enough opportunities for growth for example within the organization or to resort to ... manage ... I was of both sexes the little bit more by women Beastie stash MRI I was talk about the proper sound I he discusses on as another study of licensure ... this is that we really don't have a buffer zone anymore ... to get away from work we knew exactly what extent are found that seventy five percent of ... Americans report that they were sharing their pain ten month check vacations drinkers Monday is ... on the most common ... I think ... the thing that people do is check the email corset so easy to do when your item in your BlackBerry back out ... but I was really inching was up thirty percent of people said the paper to speak on conference calls and forty four percent said that they actually take days off in order to catch up on work because it's almost impossible you take a vacation ... you go away he'll take the know at some point during the vacation when you come back just because the critical mass of work we all had now ... when you have when even until it gets to twenty four hours just to catch back up from your vacation is actually a very windy backing a vacation from your vacation I'd I don't jump back over to you because act ... all but wonder you know we we cite all these numbers we hear them with red intuitively known in there but what else can impede the ultimate impact both on our bodies our health ... and also just have ... more places in general ... well that the human body and mind you build to manage through the short term ... but when it ... becomes chronic wheat to do to help troubled mental health problems that affect our ... job performance that affect our relationship ... that that that thing happened to them and turned over to Outperform and ... I and the reputation of being able to attract high quality workers to keep it a competitive advantage in the marketplace ... the problem for employees but the problem the bottom line